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Halloween in Huntly
Poems Electronique
Traditional Music Residency
Deveron Arts is based in Huntly, Aberdeenshire and serves as a catalyst for contemporary arts in the rural community.
Through its town is the venue programme, where arts production and presentation takes place in existing spaces - rather than specified buildings. Deveron Arts it is committed to working with local people while ensuring artistic excellence is maintained.
Petrifying Arts Festival - 30/31 October 2004
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Deveron Arts 'Halloween in Huntly' festival will be staged at the end of October 2004. Last year's event was a huge success with an estimated 1000 people attending the various events.
This year's events included: |
- Film: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Dungeon DJs - DJ music at the Linden Centre
- Spooky Walk around Huntly - with storyteller Grace Banks
- TRANSLUNAR - Fire and light performance with burning trees and dancing shadows. Followed by a Masked Lantern March up to the Square with Huntly Pipe Band, guided by Donal Brown, and on to a Grand Pary at the Square with John Kenny, Dundendance, David Blyth and more...
- Poems Electronique - Sound-scapes real and imaginary. This features a multi-media performance with John Kenny (trombone/carnyx), DJ Chris Wheeler and DELICATE AWOL.
Bring masks, neepy lanterns, instruments and anything that makes a noise!!!
| For more information on the festival or if you are interested in helping at future festivals, please visit the Deveron Arts website. |
During September the internationally acclaimed trombonist/composer John Kenny was invited by Deveron Arts to spend a short residency in Huntly with sound designer Chris Wheeler. Together, Kenny and Wheeler created a highly unusual piece of music: Doric. This is an electroacoustic sound-poem, created out of sounds and images of both the natural and man-made environment of the town of Huntly, with specific reference to the sounds of the Doric speech.
During their residency in Huntly, Kenny and Wheeler met and worked with Jim and Caro Brooks, internationally acclaimed musicians who live locally.
The work was performed as part of the Halloween in Huntly festival on Sunday 31 October in the Stewarts Hall.
October 2003 - January 2004
Fiddler Paul Anderson was in residence in Huntly for a four-month residency beginning in October 2003 Paul Anderson is a fiddler and composer of contemporary music of international acclaim, who lives and works in the North-East of Scotland. The residency project aimed to capture current town life in Huntly and its surrounding Strathbogie area through traditional music. The residency had the following key elements:
- To involve the fiddler within the community through his presence in shops, on the Square, in Hotels, the supermarket, etc.
- To compose music on various cultural assets (architecture, traditional businesses, customs) of the town and the community in collaboration with local people.
- To involve young fiddlers from the Huntly area in the project through workshops and an informal performance programme.
- To carry out research into local fiddlers and old tunes some of which were quite hidden.
He established the 'Strathbogie Collection' of 35 local tunes depicting themes and local celebrities from all walks of life.
- To provide a research and development phase for the production of new work.
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Did you know?
Deveron Arts projects have also been helped through Cultural Diversity funding from the Scottish Arts Council. More about Cultural Diversity... |
Supported by the National Lottery through the Scottish Arts Council. |